Apple FREEFORM | everything you need to know

Hearing Ropsie say “fantastic human” is everything!!!

It's cool to see Apple on the hopping on the bandwagon of more advanced digital note taking. Looks good so far, can't wait to see what it grows into! Nice video :)

Your presentations are great! I like that your voice is not overly loud or obnoxious. Very clear too.

Your reviews are always excellent! Thanks!

Awesome, THANKS for making a great, clear video about Freeform. Really, really appreciate it. This app seems like a good first step. Hop Apple hears your comments. One additional thing that you didn’t quite touch on was using the Apple Pencil to hand write words and then convert to text. But this is kind of obvious so probably doesn’t need a separate call out. Thanks again!

I like it a lot as well. It appeared rather out of the blue for me just as I was finding myself wanting a lightweight, flexible diagramming tool. I have been using Scapple on and off for this but having a native Apple tool across both macOS and i(pad)os is great. I would also prefer a more flexible palette but for a V1 release I'm very pleased with it!

Apple needs to add to the Freeform App across Apple devices, the ability to snap shapes drawn with pencil of with hand.

Best review on this app I’ve watched. Thanks!

Its sort of a whiteboard app with exactly NONE of the features people would expect of such an app. No hyperlinks, no node/edge org chart or network diagraming. No shape hinting (you know where you draw a "freeform" shape and the app cleans it up into a platonic rectangle, square, circle, oval, star, moon, arrow, sun, person, plant, car, etc). No object recognition. No semantic or search features. There are sticky notes but when you write on them, your writing doesn't stick to the note so when you move the note, the writing floats where it was. No math and equation solver or formatter, no tables, no charts, no dimensional drawings, no metadata, no alternative views (page, table, scrolling, list, portfolio, timeline, graph, semantic, word cloud, etc.). No creation or edit or browse history slider. No record for show functionality. No output to presentation. No audio (lecture) recording tied to note taking (so you can click on a part of your notes and have the audio play back from the moment in the lecture that was recorded when you drew that part of your notes). No background web searches and content suggestions. No cloud publishing and public sharing. No geographic parsing (location relationship mapping). No finder integration. No collections. No list or task or event or group or calendar awareness. No associative awareness (doesn't store proximity information).

Hello Ropsie Good review about Freeform 😊 It will probably improve as Notes did … but it is true that OneNote and Evernote allow the same in a more open world Regards Erick😊

Love your reviews. ❤❤❤❤❤ can you please start reviewing everything?!

Thanks for the review. This app is a bit basic than I expected, I think I prefer the endless canvas on OneNote Pages but with a lot more functions - plus notebooks and folders.

great review, I like to know can you do storyboard on the freeform music sheets?

Element note its new app and have amazing handwriting , you should try it ,it’s new generation notetaking app

Come on Paperless X :) When a new tool comes up we are waiting for your review :) Thanks

Thanks, again for a nice video. Ok , was just about to say i can do all that in apple notes . But here are som extra features / posibilties. If they just have aded them to the notes we wouldnt need Freeform, ok anyway, thanks ..just what i wanted to know .

how beautiful your voice. relaxing and warm and friendly. 😘😀

now, this app suits my needs. and it comes free! They just need to allow us annotate the pdfs😊in the canvas

The official app ive been waiting for. But, is there a way to turn off handwriting correction in Freeform (or in Notes)? I can write perfectly in Goodnotes or in Notability with Apple Pencil but unfortunately Apple apps corrects (idk if this is the right term) my lines and my letters.

Only one thing I miss in Freeform -> mind mapping module . For me, this will be the final touch for perfection if Apple add this feature 😅. ps : following your content sporadically since 3 or 4 years at least, every time i fall again in the “note taking, productivity and pkm” rabbit 🐇 hole 🕳️ 😂😂😂…. Your content is really nice, straight to the point, I can see your level of expertise rising since the beginning . Tx a lot 🎉.